NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) — Qiagen last week announced its plans to fill one of the few remaining gaps in its molecular diagnostic product portfolio — multiplex molecular infectious disease, or 'syndromic' testing — through the acquisition of Spanish molecular diagnostics developer Stat-Dx for up to $191 million.

This webinar will provide a comparison of several next-generation sequencing (NGS) approaches — including short-read 16S, whole-genome sequencing (WGS), and synthetic long-read sequencing technology — for use in microbiome research studies.